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Colorado Eliminates the Sales Tax Vendor Fee Jan 1, 2026: What Retailers Lose and How to Adjust
Colorado HB25B-1005 eliminates the state sales tax vendor fee Jan 1 2026 — retailers must remit 100% of state sales tax, no 4% allowance. What changes.
Form 1099-K Threshold Reverts to $20,000 and 200 Transactions: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Changed
IR-2025-107 and Fact Sheet 2025-08: One Big Beautiful Bill retroactively reinstates $20,000 and 200-transaction 1099-K threshold, undoing ARPA $600 rule. What sellers must still track.
Maine Started Taxing Netflix and Spotify on January 1, 2026: What Sellers of Digital Audio and Audiovisual Services Must Collect
Maine taxes digital audiovisual and audio services at 5.5% from Jan 1 2026 — streaming, music, podcasts, audiobooks. Who must collect and how to comply.
Retail Delivery Fees Are the Next Sales Tax Headache: What Colorado and Minnesota Charge and Who Must Collect
Colorado charges $0.29 per retail delivery and Minnesota $0.50 on orders $100+ — separate from sales tax. Thresholds, collection, and bookkeeping for 2026.
Amazon's Expanded New Selection Program: Referral Fee Caps, Free Storage, and the October 31 Deadline
Amazon's July 30, 2026 New Selection Program update caps referral fees at 10% on the first 100 units and 5% on the next 100 for new-to-FBA parent ASINs, waives storage and liquidation fees on the first 200 units for 120 days, and adds $125 in Vine and coupon credits — but existing enrollees must reconfirm by October 31, 2026 to keep qualifying new listings.
AI Shopping Agents Are Buying Things Now: A Small Seller's Guide to UCP, ACP, and the 2026 Protocol Land Grab
Four competing agentic commerce protocols — Google's UCP, OpenAI's ACP, Alibaba's trust protocol, and Stripe's MPP — launched within months of each other in early 2026. What small online sellers should actually do about machine-readable catalogs, automatic enrollment, and reconciling revenue across four new checkout channels.
Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): What It Means When AI Agents Start Buying From Your Small Business
Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), launched September 2025 with 60+ partners including Mastercard, PayPal, and Adyen, uses cryptographically signed Mandates to let AI agents make purchases a human authorized. Here's what it changes for small-business checkout, chargeback disputes, and bookkeeping.
Amazon Is Ending Stickerless Commingled Inventory: What FBA Sellers Must Do Before March 31, 2026
Amazon ends stickerless commingled inventory on March 31, 2026. Resellers must apply FNSKU labels ($0.20–$0.50/unit) while Brand Registry owners get virtual tracking; unlabeled stock gets flagged defective. Here's the labeling deadline timeline, who pays what, and the lot-level costing and landed-cost accounting changes sellers need before the cutoff.
eBay's 2026 Fee Overhaul: Flat Rates, a 5% Refurbished Discount, and the Math Resellers Should Run
On July 1, 2026, eBay replaced tiered final value fees with flat category rates for commercial sellers on its European marketplaces — roughly 7–14% on new goods and a flat 5% on used and refurbished items. Depending on price band, the change can cut or raise your fees, so here's a 90-day audit to run against your own sales data.
Nuvei Is Buying Payoneer for $2.75 Billion: What It Means for Freelancers Paid Across Borders
Nuvei is acquiring Payoneer for $7.40 per share — about $2.75 billion — with closing expected by mid-2027. Here's what the deal means for freelancers and small exporters in 190+ countries who rely on Payoneer payouts, and four bookkeeping steps to track fees, FX spreads, and platform risk through the transition.
Surveillance Pricing Bans in 2026: What Maryland, Connecticut, and New York's New Laws Mean for Your Business
In 2026, Maryland, Connecticut, and New York enacted the first U.S. laws restricting surveillance pricing — algorithms that use personal data to charge individual customers different prices. Here's what each law bans, the loyalty-program and cost-based carve-outs, and a compliance checklist for small businesses using dynamic pricing tools.
Avalara vs. TaxJar in 2026: Which Sales Tax Automation Tool Fits Your Business?
Avalara suits multi-jurisdictional and international sellers but hides pricing and dropped its small-business returns program in 2024; TaxJar publishes plans but doubled its Starter tier to $39/month in 2026 with $50–55 AutoFile fees. Here's how to choose based on your nexus footprint, growth plans, and total filing costs.